Our Approach

Mellon Educate South Africa, an initiative born out of the educational crisis facing South Africa. We seek to identify, transform and improve the quality of education at under-resourced schools across the country. We do this by working closely with government, schools and communities to develop and implement comprehensive, tailored solutions that address the specific challenges facing individual schools.

Development Partnership
Operating Partnership
Needs Analysis
Infrastructure
Support Partnership
Operating Partnership
Needs Analysis
Infrastructure
Support Partnership
Mellon Housing Initiative, working with Mellon Educate and international volunteers, undertakes construction programmes each year. School construction projects are selected in partnership with the education departments in each province, ensuring where possible that the most under resourced schools receive priority.
Development Partnership
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Operating Partnership
Needs Analysis
Development Partnership
Support Partnership
The development partner agreement extends the relationship further. Mellon Educate may have representation on the school governing board. Planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of intervention strategies are established at the school at every level with the buy-in of all stakeholders.
Infrastructure
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Operating Partnership
Needs Analysis
Support Partnership
Development Partnership
After the needs analysis, an agreement is formalised detailing the support offered by Mellon Educate. Focus areas include formal leadership development, training, mentoring and advising for all stakeholders. Mellon Educate has support partnerships with eight schools across the Western Cape in 2018
Infrastructure
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f. Establishing and developing literacy programmes in schools where educators will be trained to train parents.

g. Social workers identifying and implementing psychosocial support intervention programmes.

h. Holiday programmes for children and teachers. The educator identifies borderline students that require additional support. They design specific programmes with the support from Mellon Educate and run these programmes during the school holidays.

i. Designing, developing and implementing of after school programmes to enrich children in extra or co-curricular programmes. These include dance, drama, book clubs, music, art etc.
a. The Teaching Blitz is an intensive two-week training and mentoring with volunteer teachers from Ireland and the UK. It is designed to ensure teachers learn from each other, sharing ideas and supporting each other in the best interests of the children.

b. Teacher support and development includes classroom management,and empowering educators to teach effectively.

c. Mentoring, advising and supporting of principals and the school governing board.

e. Formal pedagogy training/workshops for teachers. Mellon Educate is not only doing what is required from the Curriculum Assessment Policy statement but what will benefit the children.
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Operating Partnership
Support Partnership
Needs Analysis
Development Partnership
After the needs analysis, an agreement is formalised detailing the support offered by Mellon Educate. Focus areas include formal leadership development, training, mentoring and advising for all stakeholders. Mellon Educate has support partnerships with eight schools across the Western Cape in 2018
Infrastructure
The needs analysis addresses The needs analysis addresses:
• Basic functionality of the school
• Leadership management and communication
• Governance and relationships
• Quality of teaching and learning, education development
• Curriculum provision and resources
• Learner achievement through teacher development
• School safety, security and discipline
• School infrastructure
• Parents and community
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Development Partnership
Needs Analysis
Operating Partnership
Support Partnership
A full operating partnership involves a direct agreement with the Western Cape Education Department. If an existing school partner in the support phase, or the education department, approaches Mellon Educate to assume full responsibility for the school, it becomes a school-operating partner.
Infrastructure

No school can operate successfully without the involvement of parents and community. That’s why Mellon Educate supports a range of programmes designed through consultations with principals and school governing bodies to facilitate their participation.

How we measure success

Enhanced learner and teacher morale and wellbeing Higher levels of parental and community participation

Improved Learner Achievements

Decreased Dropout Rate

Better school attendance of learners and educators

Higher levels of parental and community participation

The Teaching Blitz

The Teaching Blitz is an intensive two-week training and mentoring with volunteer teachers from Ireland and the UK. It is designed to ensure teachers learn from each other, sharing ideas and supporting each other in the best interests of the children.